Picked up a new Betsy

[Drydock]

Ordered and received an MVA Combination/Beach sight.  Installation was easy thanks to my Wyoming Sight Drifter https://www.wyomingsightdrifter.com/    highly recommended if you mess around with dovetailed or friction fit anything.  I had ordered a .378 sight based on my best guess, it was a little loose, but peening down the dovetail edges produced a nice tight fit.  Probably should have got the .385, but this appears to work fine.  Being a round barrel helps.  It produced an excellent sight picture, far better than the original post and bead. 

[Pitspitr]

Took it out to the farm today: OE and Triple 7 carbine loads.  The 8 groove H&R rifling prefers the 777, though both loads shot into 3" at 100 yards off the bench. 

I played with some Blackhorn 209 earlier this winter in my new (to me) muzzleloading abomination (scope sighted and black plastic) I  might have to try making a 55 gr load with that for the H&R

[Drydock]

Put 21 rounds of 45-70 thru my H&R this afternoon, loaded with 47 grains (By weight) 2f 777.  Getting the sights readjusted.  Nice tight 3 shot* groups at 200 yards, no cleaning until I went home.  That just fills a Starline case to the base of an Accurate 46-405c bullet.  Been running around 3 moa bench rested.  Good stuff in the H&R barrel.

I would prefer real black, but the H&R has made it clear this is what it wants.





*Steel  plate at 200 yards.  Shoot 3 rounds, walk to the plate, paint over, walk back, adjust, shoot 3 more shots, repeat.  Good exercise.

[Drydock]

Ran the OM at the Indiana Muster this weekend.  Whole match with the above loads, no cleaning, no loss of accuracy or any other problems.  Great fun.

[Drydock]

Ran the OM HARD at the Atlantic Muster.  Every shot hit steel.  This is a great set up for skirmishing.

[Blackpowder Burn]

Lee is a great guy.  Really friendly and makes great products and is an excellent gunsmith for all the vintage rifles.  I have 4 of his sights - 3 economy soule and 1 super grade soule.  Love them.........